scholarly journals From individuals to emotional drones: Technology-driven change in the collective conditioning of intimacy

2021 ◽  
pp. 146144482110571
Author(s):  
Thomas Wimark ◽  
Daniel Hedlund
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Star Trek ◽  
Late Modernity ◽  
Collective Decisions ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
The Creation

Spatial media has received impetus in recent studies, arguing that its function as a mediator of meaning and enabler of intimacy are critical in late modernity. We suggest that spatial media not only liquefies key institutions of modernity but also replaces them. We conducted interviews with men who use spatial media to realize intimacy. In our analysis, we reference the fictional Star Trek universe to illustrate how spatial media may function as an institution. In the figure of the Borg, human-tech borders are eliminated, control is exerted through collective decisions, and bodies are assimilated into an expanding beehive-like community. Similarly, spatial media enables the liquefaction of human-tech borders, the creation of new sets of rules and hierarchies, and the assimilation of intimacy practices. We thereby conclude that digital media not only drive a process of liquefaction but also the forging of new institutional structures that condition the realization of intimacy.

scholarly journals The institutional development of International Association of Academies of Sciences: from scientific councils to international scientific-technological consortia

2020 ◽  
pp. 4-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petr A. Vityaz ◽  
Vyacheslav K. Shcherbin
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
International Association ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
Global Value Chains ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Stable Source ◽  
To Receive

The article considers the history of creation of formal and informal institutional structures of International Association of the Academies of sciences (IAAS) the functioning of which is based on the technological chains of cognition that are characteristic of traditional disciplinary science. The differences between the technological chains of cognition and the global value chains that have developed in the global economy are shown. The prospects of combining the chains of these types within the framework of international scientific and technological consortia, which are more consistent with the requirements of modern technoscience, are determined. The conclusion is substantiated that the creation of a number of international scientific-technological consortia on the basis of scientific councils of association will allow IAAS to receive a stable source of its additional financing.

scholarly journals Response to Melissa Raphael

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-25
Author(s):  
Ruth Illman
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Image Of God ◽  
Human Face ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Jewish Art ◽  
Contemporary Issue ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Image Of God ◽  
Ethical Demand

A response to Melissa Raphael’s article ‘The creation of beauty by its destruction: the idoloclastic aesthetic in modern and contemporary Jewish art’. Key themes discussed include the notion of human beings as created in the image of God, Levinas’s understanding of the face and its ethical demand as well as the contemporary issue of the commodification of the human face in digital media.

scholarly journals LOCAL MEDIA IN THE CORONA CRISIS: SIGNIFICANCE AND CHALLENGES ON THE EXAMPLE OF POŽEGA 034 PORTAL

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ante Mandarić ◽  
Goran Matijević
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Crisis Communication ◽  
The State ◽  
Public Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
Local Media ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation

The epidemic of the disease COVID-19, in Požeština in relation to China, where it originated in other parts of Croatia, appeared somewhat later, while Požega-Slavonia County in terms of total share in relation to other counties in Croatia remained relatively well , 16th place, out of a total of 20 counties, ie a smaller number of patients was recorded. In the conditions of public health danger to the health and lives of people with expressed uncertainty, citizens around the world were flooded with numerous information, about the disease, ways of prevention, treatment that at one point threatened to turn into an infodemia, as warned by the WHO. The importance of crisis communication in such conditions is of great importance, and how governments and headquarters communicate messages about the crisis to the public, which is discussed in the first parts of the paper and points out several inconsistencies and illogicalities in the actions of the state headquarters. prohibition and permission to make recommendations contrary to the epidemiologist’s recommendations. But more important than the recommendations of headquarters and governments, today are the recommendations and news transmitted by digital media, and especially the local ones that bring news and recommendations for the area where we live. Therefore, the aim of this paper was to investigate in the central part the significance of the local 034 Portal in the Corona crisis, and its monitoring of the crisis and its impact on the public. Research through several segments, it was found that the portal maintained the level of reporting on regular events and adjusted reporting on the Crown to the conditions and situation in the county, not leading to sensationalism, concern, fear, but was a carrier of preventive activities and a good ally in the fight. against the epidemic, that is, he followed the guidelines for informing the WHO and did not contribute to the creation of an infodemia.

Used Universes and Immaculate Realities

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bob Rehak
Keyword(s):  
Pop Culture ◽  
Star Trek ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Special Effects ◽  
Star Wars ◽  
George Lucas ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Mind Set

One of the biggest changes in franchise building has been the refinement of digital tools for previsualizing special effects. This chapter explores the creation of the original Star Wars (1977), focusing on George Lucas as a techno-auteur whose use of animatics was central to creating the film’s world. Beyond production design, however, previz enabled Lucas to extend his authorial brand to encompass the contributions of other artists and pop-culture influences, minting originality out of appropriation. The chapter considers Lucas’s “Special Editions” of the late 1990s as examples of the previz mind-set, noting parallels with the design networks and creative fan productions around Star Trek.

Making It for the Screen

2015 ◽  
pp. 249-264
Author(s):  
Paul Chilsen
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Authentic Learning ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Creation Process ◽  
Screen Media ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Digital Media Literacy

We are immersed in a culture of spoken media, written media, and now irrevocably, digital screen media. Just as writing and speaking skills are keys to functioning in society, we must consider that the world increasingly demands proficiency in “mediating” as well. Doing anything less leaves this powerful medium in the hands of a relative few. By offering instruction in what digital screen media is, how it is effectively created, how the Internet continues to alter communication, and how this all informs everyday teaching and learning, digital media literacy can become more broadly understood and accessible. This chapter follows a program developed by the Rosebud Institute and looks at how—using simple, accessible technology—people can become more digital media literate by creating screen products themselves. The creation process also enables deeper, more authentic learning, allowing us all to communicate more effectively, to self-assess more reflectively, and to thrive in a screen-based world.

Disposable Music

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georg Hajdu
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Special Software ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Heterogeneous Ensemble ◽  
Cultural Developments ◽  
Musical Forms

This article introduces the concept of real-time composition and composition as a “dispositif” in the sense of Foucault and Deleuze, defining it as a heterogeneous ensemble of pieces that together form an apparatus. The introduction situates the dispositif in the context of cultural developments, most notably its slow but steady shift away from textualization in digital media. As musicians are adapting to ensuing cultural and, above all, economic changes, new musical forms emerge that rely to a lesser degree on fully notated scores, such as “comprovisation” or laptop performance. Antithetically, the computer also allows the creation of “authorless” notated scores in real time to be sight-read by capable musicians—a practice for which special software has been developed in recent years. Because these scores are not meant to be kept and distributed, they are ephemeral and, therefore, disposable. Three examples by the author are given to illustrate the interwovenness of this approach, where carefully selected narratives and dramaturgies make up for the inherent unpredictability of the outcome.

Proprietary control in cyberspace: three moments of copyright growth in China

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (7) ◽  
pp. 1055-1069
Author(s):  
Dong Han
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Cultural Control ◽  
Cultural Property ◽  
The Political ◽  
Internet Governance ◽  
Critical Research ◽  
Digital Copyright ◽  
The Media ◽  
Legal Transplantation ◽  
The Creation

Drawing on critical research on the political economy of the media and intellectual property rights (IPR), this research examines copyright growth in China’s digital media. It sees copyright development as the creation of private cultural property, an ongoing process and part of China’s media marketization and the globalization of IPR. It focuses on three critical moments in the creation of digital copyright: the invention of ground rules by state organs, a bottom-up challenge to copyright control, and the correlated development between law and business agendas. It argues that digital copyright is part of China’s market-oriented reform, West-looking legal transplantation, elite-driven policymaking, and business-friendly Internet governance. The law and its implementation manifest the ascendance of proprietary cultural control in Chinese cyberspace, which needs to be assessed historically and critically.

scholarly journals Imagining and instituting future media: Introduction to the special issue

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 705-715
Author(s):  
Christian Pentzold ◽  
Anne Kaun ◽  
Christine Lohmeier
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Networked Services

In our fast-forward times, the special issue ‘Back to the Future: Telling and Taming Anticipatory Media Visions and Technologies’ examines the future-making capacity of networked services and digital data. Its contributions ask about the role media play in forecasting the future and their part in bringing it about. And they are interested in the expectations and anticipatory visions that accompany the formation and spread of new media. Along these lines, the eight articles in this special issue explore the future-making dimension of new media. As a whole, they provide an empirically grounded analysis of the ways media reconfigure the relations and distances among present, past, and future times. The contributions delineate imaginaries of futures related to digital media. Furthermore, they attend to interventions into the plans and efforts of making futures and they inquire about the creation of differently vast and (un)certain horizons of expectation. Together, the articles share the assumption that mediated futures are actively accomplished and enacted; they do not simply appear or wait for us to arrive in them.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF DIGITAL MEDIA IN THE CREATION OF HIGH QUALITY PRODUCTS

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Iva Bubanja
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Online Advertising ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Target Consumer

This paper analyzed the changes in the process of creating high -quality products that occurred after the introduction of information -communication technolo gies and the Internet in the enterprises. Internet offeres advantages connected with the possibility of further company development and with the possibility for the high quality products to find their way to target consumer groups quickly and easily. Speci al emphasis will be given to the role of online advertising and social media in the promotion of such products. With the use of digital technologies enterprises have the ability to do business more competitive and to contribute to the growth of the nationa l economy.

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